PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia-area gambling market is set to get competitive now that state regulators voted Tuesday to award a license to Live! Hotel & Casino, a joint venture of two Eastern seaboard casino operators to be built in South Philadelphia’s stadium district.
BOSTON — MGM Resorts International has paid Massachusetts a required $85 million gambling licensing fee for its $800 million Springfield resort casino on Monday, state gambling regulators announced.
It looks like an innocuous request — Caesars Entertainment asking Clark County to expand the Strip’s Gaming Enterprise District to include a 38-acre parking lot behind The Linq. But the request has generated more than 50 emails from irate residents.
Stratosphere parent American Casino & Entertainment Properties reversed third-quarter net loss and grew revenue 4.1 percent, the company said.
ATLANTIC CITY — A Morris County woman has won New Jersey’s largest Internet gambling jackpot, a $1.3 million payout from an online slots game.
Boyd Gaming Corp. plans to revamp its restaurant offerings throughout its locals-oriented properties.
The past 10 years covering gaming nationally and internationally have been nothing short of a theme park thrill ride that Disney’s greatest designers couldn’t conjure. Las Vegas hit an apex in 2007, only to be brought low by recession. The market is slowly recovering.
Ultimate Gaming, the nation’s first legal and regulated real money online wagering website, said Friday it was ending its Nevada-based operation, citing a lack of profitability from the 19-month-old business.
Affinity Gaming saw its operating income and cash flow slip in the third quarter because of what the casino operator termed as “unusual” corporate expenses over the three-month period.
ATLANTIC CITY — Trump Entertainment Resorts said Thursday it will close the Taj Mahal on Dec. 12 if its main union doesn’t drop an appeal of a court-ordered savings package.
